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A recent email from a bliss user reminded me of the need to cover a topic I'd long considered:
FLAC corruption. I'd previously discussed
fixing corrupt MP3s and I'd always had it in mind to cover other file formats, but until now
I'd deferred this.

The main area of work has been in improving the consistency of bliss's internal database, particularly
after large scale file renaming. I had a few reports of issues in this area, and I've reworked some
fundamental database code to try to avoid said consistency problems.

It's a common problem for owners of large MP3 collections:
out of control genres. Too many
genres or too few, some too specific, some too broad, some plain wrong. Genres soon become
next to useless when browsing your music collection. What's the best way of cleaning up
genres?

"Auditing" is a word that conjures images of accountants, grey suits, briefcases and
worst of all... NUMBERS! It's far and away from the kind of thing you want to
think about when considering your music collection. Auditing may sound boring,
but unless you want a disorganised, inconsistent or corrupted music collection you
will have to check for and prevent creeping problems in your music.

Up until now I have been running bliss on a Windows desktop to correct my entire music collection
first and then transfer all the music on to my music server (a Raspberry Pi based Logitech media server;
see my blog for details): http://www.ls-homeprojects.co.uk